Roger Kahn joined the New York Herald Tribune as a copy boy in 1948 and rose quickly to become a baseball writer. He began to cover the Dodgers in 1952, and also traveled with the other New York teams, the Giants and the Yankees. At the age of 26, he was the newspaper's "star" sports reporter, making a salary of $10,000. In 1956, Mr. Kahn was named sports editor of Newsweek magazine and then from 1963 to 1969 became editor at large of The Saturday Evening Post. For a decade he wrote a monthly column for Esquire magazine. Five times his articles were voted the best in the country and awarded the E.P. Dutton prize.

In 1972, he published "The Boys of Summer," which became the country's number-one best seller and a phrase that is now used hundreds of times by writers and fans during the baseball season. Mr. Kahn's other books include a biography of Jack Dempsey, a memoir of the season in which he owned a minor league baseball team, a history of a student uprising at Columbia University and a recollection of the era when the Yankees, Dodgers and Giants ruled the world. Three anthologies are entirely devoted to some of the best of Mr. Kahn's writing.

In 2006 he was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. On that occasion, Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig called Mr. Kahn "an icon of our game."--rogerkahn.com.